USA Today published a great editorial[1] this week about how some states — including Colorado, which it mentions — continue to keep the public “in the dark about public pensions.”

“Such secrecy is particularly egregious,” the editorial says, “at a time when pumped-up pensions for state legislators and workers, detailed in a series of stories by USA TODAY’s Tom Frank, are beginning to overwhelm many governments, forcing cuts in state and local services and pressuring tax rates upward — even pushing a handful of cities into bankruptcy.”

It’s worth reading the entire piece, which was triggered by revelations in Oregon that former head football coach for the Oregon Ducks, Mike Bellotti, is pulling down a state pension of more than $41,000 a month.